COMMISSIONERATE OF CUSTOMS -MANGALORE

Back Ground

The New Mangalore Port, the only Major port of Karnataka was declared as the
9th Major port on 04th May’1974 and was formally
inaugurated on 11th January’1975 by the then Prime Minister of India
Smt. Indira Gandhi. The traffic in the Port has been steadily increasing through
the years. The following table illustrates the same :

(Traffic in Million tones)

1994-95

1995-96

1996-97

1997-98

1998-99

1999-2000 (Estimate)

Imports

1.64

1.88

4.48

6.10

6.89

8.45

Exports

6.36

7.00

7.97

9.18

7.31

9.15

Total

8.00

8.88

12.45

15.28

14.20

17.60

Mangalore Customs Commissionerate was created vide Notification
No.20/97-CUS (NT) dated 07.07.97 and brought into force vide Notification
No.32/97 Cus (NT) dated 16.07.97. The jurisdiction of this Commissionerate
extends to 17 Districts of Karnataka, i.e., entire area covered by Dakshina
Kannada, Udupi, Madikeri, Hassan, Chikmagalur, Shimoga, Uttara Kannada, Dharwad,
Belgaum, Bijapur, Bidar, Bagalkot, Gulbarga, Gadag, Koppal, Bellary and Raichur
Districts. The Commissionerate covers the entire coastal Karnataka having a
coastline of over 300 Kms. The coast is prone to landing of smuggled goods
particularly during the fair weather season from September to May when southwest
Monsoon is not active.

This Commissionerate has two Custom Houses, one at Mangalore
and another at Karwar. Major imports at Mangalore are Crude Oil, Edible oil, LPG
and Timber. Major exports are Iron Ore and Granite Blocks. At Karwar, the major
imports are Furnace oil, Edible oil and Rock Phosphate and major exports are
Phosphoric acid and Granite blocks.

REVENUE

The revenue collection of this Commissionerate has been
steadily increasing over the years. The total revenue collection during the year
2000-2001 was Rs.1282.62 crore which is 97.76 % of the target of Rs.1312 Crore
fixed for this Commissionerate. The following table shows the details of revenue
realisation for the last 4 years and up to January 2002:

REVENUE REALISATION IN THE LAST 4 YEARS :

(Rs. in crore)

Year

Target

Actual Realisation

% Of Realisation

1997-98

930.00

761.84

81.92

1998-99

912.00

675.66

74.09

1999-00

985.00

1191.14

120.93

2000-01

1312.00

1282.62

97.76

2001-02

1398.00

579.96

41.48

REVENUE FROM MAJOR COMMODITIES FOR THE LAST 4 YEARS

(Rs. in Crores)

Sl.No.

Commodity

1997-98

1998-99

1999-00

2000-01

2001-02

1

Petroleum Crude

548.06

365.44

707.56

763.66

266.74

2

Commercial Butane

87.45

122.06

183.71

152.19

95.73

3

Misc. Chemical

34.35

22.07

33.32

27.25

25.09

4

Project Import

47.69

45.09

57.58

128.23

0

5

Animal/Veg Fat/ Oils

33.66

41.97

81.36

122.12

110.16

6

Plastic & Articles

0.76

0.38

0.07

0.01

0

7

S.K.O

1.27

75.97

76.43

14.33

15.31

8

F.O

-

-

9.84

14.05

32.22

9

Timber

-

-

22.15

23.67

15.27

TOTAL

755.24

672.98

1172.02

1245.51

560.52

MAJOR IMPORTERS DURING THE LAST 4 YEARS

Sl. No.

Name of the importer

1997-98

1998-99

1999-00

2000-01

2001-02

1

MRPL (crude)

548.06

410.53

742.06

763.65

266.74

2

HPCL (LPG)

89.08

122.06

182.62

147.43

77.71

3

HOCL (Misc. chem.)

5.11

6.36

7.66

2.54

0

4

Ruchisoya Industries (Veg. Oils)

12.48

8.60

14.84

54.40

47.74

5

Lanyard Foods Ltd. (Veg. Oils)

12.24

24.92

33.45

44.08

0

6

Koramandal Petro Pvt.Ltd.(SKO)

0

10.11

4.25

0.64

0

7

Enrico Marketing P. Ltd. (Veg. Oils)

0

6.43

0.59

0.00

0

8

Yeses Intl. Ltd. (SKO)

0

0

14.05

5.20

0

9

Seven Seas Petro Products (SKO)

0

0

5.04

0.84

0

10

M K . Agrotech

0

0

0

0

3.13

11

SDV OIL

0

0

0

0

8.54

12

Parisons Mill

0

0

0

0

9.52

13

Bee- Am Chem

0

0

0

0

3.91

14

Indian Farmer Co. op. Ltd

0

0

0

0

1.95

15

ELF Gas

0

0

0

0

4.90

16

Indian Potash

0

0

0

0

4.04

17

Parison Agro Tech

0

0

0

0

21.12

18

BASF

0

0

0

0

185

19

Pure chemicals

0

0

0

0

1.45

20

MCF

0

0

0

0

5.28

GLIMPSE OFNEW
MANGALORE PORT

In the 9th Plan document, the Govt. of India has
considered the following traffic projections through its eleven major ports
:

(Traffic in Million Tonnes)

Year
Total Traffic
Containers
TEUs (in millions)

2001-02
423.94
38.66
3.22

M/s. RITES in their Report Vision 2020 has estimated the
following traffic.

(Traffic in Million Tonnes)

Year

Total Traffic

Containers

TEUs

2001-02

415.06

40.73

3.39

2006-07

612.65

71.78

5.98

2011-12

865.92

115.60

9.63

2016-17

1129.40

169.85

14.15

2020-21

1273.15

208.10

17.30

An overall growth of about 8 to 9% is projected for the above
period which means that matching facilities are to be planned and executed in
the Ports to avoid congestion of traffic. A number of new ports are coming up in
the private sector in the states of Gujarat and Maharashtra to cater to the
growth in traffic, which means competition to the existing ports controlled by
the Government which in turn leads to the fact that the existing ports have to
wake up and plan and execute major improvement in the existing facilities and
infrastructure.

The commodity wise break up of the traffic projections for NMPT
envisaged by M/s. RITES in the VISION 2020 Report is as under :

The container traffic has been re-introduced at Mangalore since March 2000
Compared to all other neighbouring ports of India vix. Tuticorin, Cochin, Goa,
MGPT, JNPT and Kandla, NMPT has got tremendous scope for development as a
container transshipment terminal on the west coast of India with a draft of 14
M and a straight channel of 7 ˝ Kms. Length. Adequate area is also available
for container stackyard both inside and outside the harbour. The Port is well
connected with the southern railway and Konkan railway . There is a proposal
to develop Inland Container Depot by CONCOR in NMPT area. They have identified
an area of 5 acres in the Marshalling yard for this purpose.